TWO gangland assassins pose and grin from inside Shotts maximum security prison in pictures posted on the internet.

The snaps of killers Raymond Anderson and James McDonald, who are serving the longest prison sentences in Scots legal history, have appeared on the Facebook page of murderer and fellow inmate Stephen Price.

Anderson, 50, and McDonald, 38, shot dead Michael Lyons at Applerow Motors in Glasgow in 2006. Two other men, one of them the victim’s cousin, were wounded in the attack.

The gangland duo had their record sentences cut from 35 years to a minimum of 30 years in 2011.

Price, 24, who was jailed for at least 15 years for stabbing a man 80 times, uploaded the jail snaps on his Facebook page.

The evil brute, who posed for a picture next to his victim’s body, uses a smuggled mobile phone to upload snaps of him and jail buddies larking around in their cells at the jail in Lanarkshire.

Price, of Paisley, uses Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family on the outside.

He has adopted the alias Steve Austin on the social networking site and claims he’s a health and fitness student living in Thailand.

A friend wrote on his wall: “Good stuff brother, proud a yae mate, a student who saw at cummin f.s lol gd oan yae but.”

Price also posted a picture of him posing in his boxer shorts and flexing his muscles. In another he puts a middle finger up to the camera while sporting a black eye.

And he boasts about taking cocaine behind bars in a post peppered with expletives.

He says his favourite quotations include: “ive loved like i should, and lived like i shouldnt, and i had to lose everything to find out.”

Price also posted several pictures of slain US rapper Tupac and left a bizarre message to a pal last year which read: “Soon as i get home … 2pac kadafi !!”

The killer and his then girlfriend Karen Duncan took pictures of themselves as they washed their victim Scott Burgess’s blood from themselves in a bath.

Duncan was jailed for seven years for culpable homicide and her sister, Irene, got 27 months in a young offenders’ institution.

A Scottish Prison Service spokeswoman said: “Having a mobile phone in a prison, or any other equipment that can be used to update social media, is a criminal offence.

“Any suggestion that a prisoner is in possession of such contraband is fully investigated.”